By Mary Schenk
News-Gazette (Ill.)

CHAMPAIGN – A family of five escaped serious injury early Thursday when a carbon monoxide detector sounded in their apartment in northwest Champaign.

Champaign fire officials said they found dangerously high readings of carbon monoxide in an apartment at the Garden Village Apartments.

Apartment complex owner Barbara Osuchowski said she installed the carbon monoxide detectors in each of her 163 units about three years ago. She called it a very good investment.

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